LGBTQ+ Scholarly Resource List

Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ+) Pride Month is celebrated each year in the month of June to honor the 1969 Stonewall Uprising in Manhattan, which was led by trans women of color and Black lesbians. Pride Month is not only a celebration, but a time to reflect on how far we’ve come and how far we have left to go regarding liberation for the LGBTQ+ community and for all. 
 
Similar to the previously published section of scholarly writing and resources on race and society, we asked members of the ACLS community to share resources on LGBTQ+ liberation consisting of existing research, published works, podcasts, and any other mediums that can help in education for reflection and action.
 
If you have a favorite resource – yours or another’s – on LGBTQ+ topics, history, or reading guides, etc., please share your contributions, or any questions or comments, with us at [email protected]

ARTICLES

• “The Anatomy of Habit: Prison Sexology and the Scandal of Pederasty in Colonial India” – GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, Volume 29, Issue 1, January 1, 2023
  Written by Rovel Sequeira F’20, LSA Collegiate Postdoctoral Fellow, Women’s and Gender Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
• “#ArewaAgainstLGBTQ discourse: a vent for anti-homonationalist ideology in Nigerian twittersphere?” – African Identities, 2021
  Written by Paul Ayodele Onanuga F’21, Lecturer, Federal University Oye-Ekiti
• “Asserting identity in stifling spaces: multisemioticity in Nigerian queer-positive Instagram” – Social Dynamics: A journal of African studies, February 29, 2024
  Written by Paul Ayodele Onanuga F’21, Assistant Professor, English and Literary Studies, Federal University Oye-Ekiti
• “Before Trans Studies” – Transgender Studies Quarterly, Volume 7, Number 3, 2022
  Written by Cassius Adair F’21, Assistant Professor of Media Studies, The New School; Cameron Awkward-Rich F’20, Assistant Professor of Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies, University of Massachusetts Amherst; and Amy Marvin
• “Between the sheets: The queer sociality of Bombay zines,” South Asian Popular Culture, Volume 21, Issue 2, 2023
  Written by Brian A. Horton F’22, Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Chair, South Asian Studies Program, Brandeis University
• “The Co-optation of LGBT Movements in Mexico and Nicaragua: Modernizing Clientelism?” – Latin American Politics and Society 57 (4), Winter 2015
  Co-written by Karen Kampwirth F’17, Robert W. Murphy Professor, Political Science, Knox College
• “Coming Out and Reaching Out: Linguistic Advocacy on Queer Nigerian Twitter” – Journal of African Cultural Studies September 14, 2020
  Written by Paul Ayodele Onanuga F’21, Assistant Professor, English and Literary Studies, Federal University Oye-Ekiti
• “Exploring an HIV paradox: an ethnography of sexual minority women injectors” – Journal of Lesbian Studies 9(3), 2005
  Co-written by Rebecca M. Jordan-Young, Ann Whitney Olin Professor and Chair, Women’s, Gender, & Sexuality Studies, Barnard College
• “Defending our Manchild: Understanding the Politics of Motherhood through Debates in the U.S. Lesbian Community” – Journal of Women’s History, Winter 2019
  Written by Elizabeth Alice Clement F’19, Aileen H. Clyde Professor of History and Director of Graduate Studies, University of Utah
• “Don’t Ask, Won’t Tell? Sexual Science and the Case Biography of Sodomy in Colonial India” – Modernism/modernity, Volume 29, Number 1, January 2022
  Written by Rovel Sequeira F’20, LSA Collegiate Postdoctoral Fellow, Women’s and Gender Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
• “‘Family Is the Beginning but Not the End’: Intergenerational LGBTQ Chosen Family, Social Support, and Health in a Vietnamese American Community Organization,” Journal of Homosexuality, 2022
  Written by James Huynh G’24, Assistant Professor of Anti-Racist Health Policy, University of Michigan
• “Fragments of Shame and Pride” – The Common, September 15, 2020
  Written by Raed Rafei F’22, PhD Candidate, University of California, Santa Cruz

• “Fashioning Fabulation: Dress, Gesture and the Queer Aesthetics of Mumbai Pride,” South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, 2020
  Written by Brian A. Horton F’22, Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Chair, South Asian Studies Program, Brandeis University
• “How young, queer Nigerians use Twitter to shape identity and fight homophobia” – The Conversation, October 12, 2020
  Written by Paul Ayodele Onanuga F’21, Assistant Professor, English and Literary Studies, Federal University Oye-Ekiti
• “Ideological Portrayal and Perceptions of Homosexuality in Selected Nollywood Movies” – Quarterly Review of Film and Video, 37(6), 2020
  Co-written by Paul Ayodele Onanuga F’21, Assistant Professor, English and Literary Studies, Federal University Oye-Ekiti
• “’If Not Now, When?’ Queer and Trans People Reclaim their Power in Lebanon’s Revolution” – Human Rights Watch, May 7, 2020
• Created by Rasha Younes with video by Amanda Bailly; Recommended by Raed Rafei F’22, PhD Candidate, University of California, Santa Cruz
• “The Joneses: Home Made in Mississippi” – Southern Spaces, February 14, 2020
  Conversation between John Howard, Eric Solomon, Allen Tullos, Sophia Leonard
• “Licensing Citizenship: Anti-Blackness, Identification Documents, and Transgender Studies” – American Quarterly, 71(2), June 2019
  Written by Cassius Adair F’21, Assistant Professor of Media Studies, The New School
• “Male Same-Sex Relations in Socialist China” – The PRC History Review, 3(1), 2018
  Written by Wenqing Kang F’12, Associate Professor, History, Cleveland State University
• “Navigating Homophobia and Re-inventing the Self: A Linguistic Enquiry of Nigerian Digital Pro-homosexuality Discourse” – Gender and Language, 16(1), 2022
  Written by Paul Ayodele Onanuga F’21, Lecturer, Federal University Oye-Ekiti
• “‘Necessarily Hidden Truth(s)’: Documenting Queer Migrant Experience in Rigoberto González’s Crossing Vines” – MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the U.S., Volume 46, Number 3, Fall 2021
  Written by José A. de la Garza Valenzuela F’23, Assistant Professor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• “New anti-transgender laws will hurt Indigenous peoples’ rights and religious expression” – The Conversation, June 1, 2023
  Written by Rosalyn LaPier F’20, Professor of History, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Recommended by Antoinette Burton F’93, Professor of History and Swanlund Endowed Chair, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
• “Organising the Hombre Nuevo Gay: LGBT Politics and the Second Sandinista Revolution” – Bulletin of Latin American Research 33(3), July 2014
  Written by Karen Kampwirth F’17, Robert W. Murphy Professor, Political Science, Knox College
• “Out of Sorts: A Queer Crip in the Archive” – Feminist Review 125, July 2020
  Written by Ryan Lee Cartwright F’13, Assistant Professor, American Studies, University of California, Davis
• “Pasolini and the Queer Revolution in Beirut” – e-flux Journal, Issue #126, April 2022
  Written by Raed Rafei F’22, PhD Candidate, University of California, Santa Cruz

• “The Podcast and the Police: S Town and the Narrative Form of Southern Queerness” – Southern Spaces, March 24, 2020
  Written by Michael Bibler, Associate Professor, Louisiana State University
• “Policing sexuality? Corpus linguistic perspectives to ‘government’ in homosexuality narratives on Nigerian twitter” – Journal of Gender Studies, 2022
  Co-written by Paul Ayodele Onanuga F’21, Lecturer, Federal University Oye-Ekiti
• “The Politics of Representations in Nigerian Homosexuality-focused Tweets” – Journal of the English Scholars’ Association of Nigeria, 22(1), June 2020
  Written by Paul Ayodele Onanuga F’21, Assistant Professor, English and Literary Studies, Federal University Oye-Ekiti
• “Protest, Performativity and Transgenderism in Stella Oyedepo’s Rebellion of the Bumpy-Chested” – Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studies 45(2), September 2019
  Written by Rowland Chukwuemeka Amaefula F’18, Department of Languages/Linguistics/Literary Studies/Theatre Arts, Federal University Ndufu-Alike Ikwo, Nigeria
• “Queer Arab Films to Watch During Pride Month” – Arab Film & Media Institute, June 2021
  Recommended by Raed Rafei F’22, PhD Candidate, University of California, Santa Cruz
• “Queer in a legal sense: Negation and negotiation of citizenship in Boutilier v. Immigration and Naturalization Service and Arturo Islas’s The Rain God” – Latino Studies, Volume 17, Issue 2, 2019
  Written by José A. de la Garza Valenzuela F’23, Assistant Professor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• “Queer Nigerian Twitter can challenge homophobia and assert sexual agency,” Africa at LSE October 29, 2020
  Written by Paul Ayodele Onanuga F’21, Assistant Professor, English and Literary Studies, Federal University Oye-Ekiti
• “Reading Incognito: Periodicals, Sapphic Fictions, and Lesbian Communication” – Dix-Neuf, Volume26, Number 1, 2022
  Written by Hannah Frydman F’23, Assistant Professor of French Studies, Adjunct Assistant Professor of History, University of Washington
• “Seeking Pleasure in Peril: Male Same-Sex Relations during the Cultural Revolution” –Positions: Asia Critique, 30(1) 2022
  Written by Wenqing Kang F’12, Associate Professor, History, Cleveland State University
• “Show and Tell: Life History and Hijra Activism in India” – Journal of Women in Culture and Society, Volume 47, Number 2
  Written by Rovel Sequeira F’20, LSA Collegiate Postdoctoral Fellow, Women’s and Gender Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
• “Solidarity in the Centerfold: Trans Social Safety Networks in the Adult Magazine” –Feminist Media Histories, Volume 9, Number 1, 2023
  Written by Cassius Adair F’21, Assistant Professor of Media Studies, The New School
• “‘The Transgender Craze Seducing Our [Sons]’; or, All the Trans Guys Are Just Dating Each Other” – Transgender Studies Quarterly, Volume 9, Number 1, 2022
  Written by Cassius Adair F’21, Assistant Professor of Media Studies, The New School, and Aren Aizura
• “Is Transsexualism Chronic?” – Feminist Studies, Volume 48, Number 2, 2022
  Written by Cassius Adair F’21, Assistant Professor of Media Studies, The New School
• “The trouble with “MSM” and “WSW”: erasure of the sexual-minority person in public health discourse” – American Journal of Public Health 95(7), July 2005
  Co-written by Rebecca M. Jordan-Young G’16, Ann Whitney Olin Professor and Chair, Women’s, Gender, & Sexuality Studies, Barnard College
• “What’s so ‘queer’ about coming out? Silent queers and theorizing kinship agonistically in Mumbai” – Sexualities, Volume 21, Issue 7, 2018
  Written by Brian A. Horton F’22, Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Chair, South Asian Studies Program, Brandeis University
• “Women Injection Drug Users Who Have Sex with Women Exhibit Increased HIV Infection and Risk Behaviors” – Journal of Drug Issues 30(3), July 1, 2000
  Co-written by Rebecca M. Jordan-Young G’16, Ann Whitney Olin Professor and Chair, Women’s, Gender, & Sexuality Studies, Barnard College

BOOKS

• Bible Trouble: Queer Reading at the Boundaries of Biblical Scholarship (SBL Press, 2011)
  Edited by Teresa J. Horsnby, Affiliated Professor of Religious Studies at Chicago Theological Seminary and Ken Stone, Professor of Bible, Culture, and Hermeneutics at Chicago Theological Seminary
• Bodies on the Verge: Queering Pauline Epistles (SBL Press, 2019)
  Edited by Joseph A. Marchal, Professor of Religious Studies at Ball State University
• Brain Storm: The Flaws in the Science of Sex Differences (Harvard University Press, 2011)
  Written by Rebecca M. Jordan-Young, Ann Whitney Olin Professor and Chair, Women’s, Gender, & Sexuality Studies, Barnard College
• The Breaks (Coffee House Press, 2021)
  Written by Julietta Singh F’19, Associate Professor of English & Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies, University of Richmond
• A Coincidence of Desires: Anthropology, Queer Studies, Indonesia (Duke University Press, 2007)
  Written by Tom Boellstorff F’06, Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Irvine
• Disruptive Situations: Fractal Orientalism and Queer Strategies in Beirut (Temple University Press, 2020)
  Written by Ghassan Moussawi; Recommended by Raed Rafei F’22, PhD Candidate, University of California, Santa Cruz
• Feeling Sick: The Early Years of AIDS in Spain (Liverpool University Press, 2023)
  Written by Dean Allbritton, Associate Professor of Spanish, Colby College
• The Fox Spirit, the Stone Maiden, and Other Transgender Histories from Late Imperial China (Columbia University Press, 2024)
  Written by Matthew H. Sommer F’06, Bowman Family Professor of History and East Asian Languages and Cultures, Stanford University
• The Gay Archipelago: Sexuality and Nation in Indonesia (Princeton University Press, 2005)
  Written by Tom Boellstorff F’06; Recommended by Raed Rafei F’22, PhD Candidate, University of California, Santa Cruz
• LGBTQ Politics in Nicaragua: Revolution, Dictatorship, and Social Movements (University of Arizona Press, 2022)
  Written by Karen Kampwirth F’17, Robert W. Murphy Professor, Political Science, Knox College
• No Archive Will Restore You (Punctum Books, 2018)
  Written by Julietta C. Singh F’19, Associate Professor of English and Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies at the University of Richmond
• Obsession: Male Same-Sex Relations in China, 1900-1950 (Hong Kong University Press, 2009)
  Written by Wenqing Kang F’12, Associate Professor, History, Cleveland State University
• Peculiar Places: A Queer Crip History of White Rural Nonconformity (University of Chicago Press, 2020)
  Written by Ryan Lee Cartwright F’13, Assistant Professor, American Studies, University of California, Davis
• Queer Career: Sexuality and Work in Modern America (Princeton University Press, 2023)
  Written by Margot Canaday F’16, Professor of History, Princeton University
• Queer in Translation: Sexual Politics under Neoliberal Islam (Duke University Press, 2021)
  Written by Evren Savci; Recommended by Raed Rafei F’22, PhD Candidate, University of California, Santa Cruz
• Queer Palestine and the Empire of Critique (Stanford University Press, 2020)
  Written by Sa’ed Atshan; Recommended by Raed Rafei F’22, PhD Candidate, University of California, Santa Cruz
• The Routledge Handbook of Queer Rhetoric (1st edition) (Routledge, 2022)
  Features chapter written by Philip Longo F’22, Lecturer, University of California, Santa Cruz
• Sex Museums: The Politics and Performance of Display (University of Chicago Press, 2015)
  Written by Jennifer Tyburczy F’20, Associate Professor of Feminist Studies at the UCSB
• The Straight Mind in Corinth: Queer Readings across 1 Corinthians 11:2–16 (SBL Press, 2017)
  Written by Gillian Townsley, Chaplain and Religious Education teacher at St Hilda’s Collegiate School and Teaching Fellow at The University of Otago
• Transgender, Intersex, and Biblical Interpretation (SBL Press, 2016)
  Written by Teresa J. Horsnby, Affiliated Professor of Religious Studies at Chicago Theological Seminary and Deryn Guest, Senior Lecturer in Biblical Hermeneutics at University of Birmingham
• Unruly Visions: The Aesthetic Practices of Queer Diaspora (Duke University Press, 2018)
  Written by Gayatri Gopinath; Recommended by Raed Rafei F’22, PhD Candidate, University of California, Santa Cruz

BOOK CHAPTERS & EXCERPTS

• “The Decriminalization and Depathologization of Homosexuality in China” – China in and beyond Headlines (Rowman & Littlefield, 2012)
  Written by Wenqing Kang F’12, Associate Professor, History, Cleveland State University
• “Ila’s Double Life” – Excerpt included in Nayak’s book, The Blue Lotus: Myths and Folktales of India (Aleph Book Company, 2018)
  Written by Meena Arora Nayak F’19, Professor of English, Northern Virginia Community College
• “Krishna’s Secret” – Excerpt included in Nayak’s book, The Blue Lotus: Myths and Folktales of India (Aleph Book Company, 2018)
  Written by Meena Arora Nayak F’19, Professor of English, Northern Virginia Community College
• “Modern Sexuality and Modern Times, 1880-1940” with Beans Velocci, – Queer American History (Routledge, 2018)
  Written by Elizabeth Alice Clement F’19, Aileen H. Clyde Professor of History and Director of Graduate Studies, University of Utah, and Beans Velocci
• “Obituary Parlor Games: Collecting and Analyzing Obituaries as Sources for Understanding the AIDS Epidemic” – Memory Lives On: Documenting the HIV/AIDS Epidemic (UC Medical Humanities Press, 2021)
  Written by Elizabeth Alice Clement F’19, Aileen H. Clyde Professor of History and Director of Graduate Studies, University of Utah

FILMS

• Quiet Heroes
  Featuring interview and consultation with Elizabeth Alice Clement F’19, Aileen H. Clyde Professor of History and Director of Graduate Studies, University of Utah
• Stryker’s Screaming Queens
  Recommended by Elizabeth Alice Clement F’19, Aileen H. Clyde Professor of History and Director of Graduate Studies, University of Utah
• The Times of Harvey Milk
  Recommended by Elizabeth Alice Clement F’19, Aileen H. Clyde Professor of History and Director of Graduate Studies, University of Utah

JOURNAL

• Kohl: a Journal for Body and Gender Research كحل: مجلة لأبحاث الجسد و الجندر
  Recommended by Raed Rafei F’22, PhD Candidate, University of California, Santa Cruz

PODCASTS

• Fiasco Season 5
  Recommended by Elizabeth Alice Clement F’19, Aileen H. Clyde Professor of History and Director of Graduate Studies, University of Utah
• Making Gay History: The Podcast
  Recommended by Timothy Stewart-Winter F’08, Associate Professor and Graduate Director, History, Rutgers University—Newark
• Plague: Untold Stories of AIDS and the Catholic Church
  Recommended by Elizabeth Alice Clement F’19, Aileen H. Clyde Professor of History and Director of Graduate Studies, University of Utah
• The Queer Arabs Podcast
  Recommended by Raed Rafei F’22, PhD Candidate, University of California, Santa Cruz
• Sexing History
  Upcoming episode will feature work by Elizabeth Alice Clement F’19, Aileen H. Clyde Professor of History and Director of Graduate Studies, University of Utah
• Sounds Gay
  Produced in part by Cassius Adair F’21, Assistant Professor of Media Studies, The New School
• Transcripts: a podcast from the Tretter Transgender Oral History Project
  Contributed to by Cassius Adair F’21, Assistant Professor of Media Studies, New York University

REPORTS

• LGBTQ+ Youth in Orange County Community Needs Assessment (2021)
  Created by Queer and Trans Viet Oral History Project, winner of a 2024 ACLS Digital Justice Seed Grant, submitted by Ivy Hang G’24

SYLLABI

• Introduction to LGBTQ Studies
  Written by Jennifer Tyburczy F’20, Associate Professor of Feminist Studies at the UCSB
• LGBT Politics in Latin America
  Written by Karen Kampwirth F’17, Robert W. Murphy Professor, Political Science, Knox College
• Trans Studies Syllabus for Bullshit Times – The Abusable Past, May 18, 2023
  Written by Toby Beauchamp, Sawyer K. Kemp, Ava L.J. Kim, Damian Vergara Bracamontes, and Mimi Thi Nguyen; Recommended by Antoinette Burton F’93, Professor of History and Swanlund Endowed Chair, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
• Queer Flows
  Written by Jennifer Tyburczy F’20, Associate Professor of Feminist Studies at the UCSB
• Queer Theory
  Written by Jennifer Tyburczy F’20, Associate Professor of Feminist Studies at the UCSB

VIDEOS

• “Black. Queer. Southern. Women.” – Southern Spaces, June 27, 2019
  Video conversation between E. Patrick Johnson of Northwestern University and Sharon Bridgforth
• “The Breaks: Julietta Singh in Conversation with Natalie Diaz, moderated by Naisargi N. Dave” –  Mark S. Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies
  Features Julietta Singh F’19, Associate Professor of English & Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies, University of Richmond

WEBSITES

• Digital Transgender Archive
  Created by K.J. Rawson G’17, F’14, Director of the Digital Transgender Archive
• Homosaurus
  Submitted by K.J. Rawson G’17, F’14, Director of the Digital Transgender Archive
• Queer Intersections/Southern Spaces
  Submitted by E. Patrick Johnson, Dean of Northwestern University School of Communication
• Queer Newark Oral History Project
  Co-directed by Timothy Stewart-Winter F’08, Associate Professor and Graduate Director, History, Rutgers University—Newark
• Visual AIDS Archive and Artist Registry
  Submitted by Jacs Rodriguez, Community Archivist, Visual AIDS